Mark Albertson
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On the AI Insights and Innovation podcast: Where are the use cases to justify generative AI investment?
Generative AI investment is a focus of attention for processor manufacturers and cloud providers, as recently seen in Microsoft Corp.’s adoption of AMD Inc.’s MI300X AI chips in the Azure platform. Yet this interest among major industry players to compete with Nvidia’s H100 GPU processor for generative artificial intelligence business is a subplot in what ...
Robotics, AI and data visualization solutions among the highlights at Qlik Connect
The Qlik Connect gathering in Orlando brought together a wide range of customers and company executives who offered their perspectives on how robotics, AI and data visualization solutions from QlikTech International AB and associated partners were making a difference. One of these perspectives came from United Parcel Service Inc., the global shipping company. UPS has ...
Cost management and visibility play central role in this week’s Snowflake announcements
While Snowflake Inc. has orchestrated its platform to run with ease and simplicity for users, there is a subset of customers with an interest in cost management and performance tracking on a regular basis. At Data Cloud Summit in San Francisco this week, the company unveiled a set of tools designed to provide those insights. ...
BET turns to Kumo’s predictive AI solution for attracting and retaining viewers
For major media content providers, such as Black Entertainment Television LLC, or BET, meeting the expectations of its viewers is of paramount importance. This is where a predictive AI solution takes on greater significance. “We are looking at data in different ways than the industry has looked at data before to start predicting what customer ...
Zillow’s AI revolution: How Snowflake’s Data Cloud is transforming real estate
Snowflake Inc. built its AI Data Cloud as a single platform to bring data and workloads together. The ability to integrate internal and external data sources is proving to be attractive for a number of businesses, including Zillow Inc., the online real estate marketplace. “It’s not only about using your own data,” said Denise Persson ...
What to expect during HPE Discover: Join theCUBE June 18-20
As Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. prepares to kick off HPE Discover on June 18, it’s been a long and winding road for the company since its inaugural event back in 2011. Back then, the event featured a performance by Paul McCartney of The Beatles fame. The agenda for this year’s HPE Discover is vastly different than what was ...
Penske Truck Leasing and Qlik seize the moment with generative AI for predictive operations
As a major provider of business intelligence and data integration software, QlikTech International AB is leveraging generative AI to capitalize on the surging interest in artificial intelligence. With a portfolio of intelligence-based products spanning more than 30 years, Qlik believes that the market has come to it. “We’ve been getting ready for this moment for ...
Qlik Council looks to accelerate responsible adoption of enterprise AI
In January, QlikTech International AB announced the formation of its inaugural AI Council, a set of four advisors with a mission to accelerate the responsible development of the Qlik AI-driven product portfolio. The council’s members were drawn from a community of AI experts and empowered to guide the company’s R&D direction and foster ethical and ...
How the open-source world is wrestling with security and licensing issues for generative AI
The rise of generative artificial intelligence has been accompanied by a growing debate within the open-source community: Are OpenAI and other model providers really open, and how trustworthy is the technology? This debate has become more relevant as AI adoption becomes more entrenched in the engines running critical systems today. Transparency has been a hallmark ...
Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World
Dell Technologies Inc. devoted much of its annual conference in Las Vegas this month to defining its artificial intelligence strategy. Through announcements and various executive presentations, the company highlighted a set of networking and infrastructure solutions designed to capitalize on the technology tsunami that has become AI. What that picture looks like now and how ...